Gone are the days when dals and pulses were considered as a poor man’s diet! Today, they have become not just trendy but core to Indian cuisine. Much of the newfound excitement with regard to vegetarian cooking is fuelled by the imaginative use of dals. The simple, highly nutritious and comforting dal-chawal (lentil-rice) combination is an inseparable part of any traditional, Indian vegetarian meal.



We have demystified a whole world of dals which woud include urad, chana,toovar, moong, masoor, vaal, chawli, vatana, kulith, haricot beans, matki, rajma, black beans, etc. The book includes recipes like dal makhani, spicy urad dal puris, sundal, vaal ki usal, etc.